The theory pictures social movements as operating within a competitive field of movements __ a “social movement industry” ____ within which they compete not least for members and activists Which theory of social movements is this ___________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Among the approaches that seek to explain the causes of social movements which one states that revolutions are most likely to take place when a prolonged period of social and economic betterment is followed by a period of sharp reversal ?

   A. the resource mobilization approach
   B. the deprivation approaches
   C. the capitalist collapse approach
   D. none of the above

2. New age movements are an example of which type of religious movement ?

   A. world-affirming
   B. world-rejecting
   C. world-enhancing
   D. world-accommodating

3. New age movements are an example of which type of religious movement ?

   A. world-affirming
   B. world-rejecting
   C. world-enhancing
   D. world-accommodating

4. The rise of new social movements indicates that______________?

   A. people vote according to pragmatic issues and concerns
   B. consumer identities are more important than class identities
   C. personal cultural and environmental issues can mobilize political consciousness just as much as economic interests
   D. all of the above

5. What approach focuses on the ever-changing relationship over time between social movements and macro-level economic and political systems ?

   A. Globalization
   B. Political Process
   C. Postmodernism
   D. Linear Evolutionary
   E. Counter-modernization

6. What theory of social movement development currently dominates academic though ?

   A. Contagion
   B. Conflict
   C. Resource Development
   D. Frame Alignment
   E. Linear Evolutionary

7. A social system in which social position is fixed for a lifetime What type of social stratification does this describe ?

   A. slavery
   B. Social class
   C. caste
   D. estates

8. Those who cannot compete have on right for higher learning and must be refused accordingly who believed in the above thesis ?

   A. Auguste Comte
   B. Spencer
   C. Karl Max
   D. None of these

9. Which of the following was not identified as one of the four major social bonds in Hirschi’s Social Control theory ?

   A. religiosity
   B. commitment
   C. involvement
   D. belief
   E. attachment

10. The term culture industry used by members of the Frankfurt School referred to________________?

    A. the globalization of cultural through new technologies
    B. the way in which culture products were bought and sold for profit
    C. the development of subcultures and counter-cultures society
    D. the way in which industrialization had created new means of communication